leadline said:

Not even close, there is too much diversity from show to show for a single release to be justified. Ultimately though I am grateful for whatever we get. We all want the floodgates to open, perhaps someday it will, but certainly not anytime soon.

See that's weird to me because I every time I saw more than one show on a tour, they were remarkably similar and I wished he'd changed up the set list more (and the choreography and the banter).

If we're talking about the main shows (not aftershows, etc.), then, yes, one concert per tour would be an excellent start. Then, we have all the "one-off appearances", which I personally would find more exciting:

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https://www.princevault.c...ppearances

Unless it's some groundbreaking show that stands out from the others like the First Avenue concert where he first premiered the Purple Rain songs, I'm completely fine with only one show per tour. From what I've seen from bootlegs, the songs have pretty much been played the same from city to city with maybe a minor change in the setlist so having every single show from the tour would be massive duplication. If he happened to have farted in one particular city and not the others, I don't necessarily have to smell it. I would like to have the two shows when he came to my city but those would only be of interest to me or someone else who lives in my area. Certainly not enough interest to release them though.

Speaking of shows that stand out, the one I would like to have more than any of the others, is the one that Gayle Chapman talked about when he first started wearing the bikini briefs onstage. His ass used to sweat so to keep the briefs from having a wet spot in the back, he used to line the back of the briefs with toilet paper. One night, a long strip of toilet paper started hanging out of the back of his ass. The band could see it but he wasn't aware of it and they certainly couldn't stop and tell him while they were playing so he kept performing with it hanging out.

TrivialPursuit said:

Nothing keeps Prince fans happy. They're mostly a miserable sack of people.

AGREED, PRINCE FANS WILL NEVER BE SATISFIED WITH ANYTHING, when the next project comes out, they'll bitch about that too.

vainandy said:

Speaking of shows that stand out, the one I would like to have more than any of the others, is the one that Gayle Chapman talked about when he first started wearing the bikini briefs onstage. His ass used to sweat so to keep the briefs from having a wet spot in the back, he used to line the back of the briefs with toilet paper. One night, a long strip of toilet paper started hanging out of the back of his ass. The band could see it but he wasn't aware of it and they certainly couldn't stop and tell him while they were playing so he kept performing with it hanging out.

Have to say that even without offically released stuff there is a great selection out there already across all the eras from pro-shot to exceptional fan made content. Montreaux series are fantastic, Musicology, Controversy, D&P etc.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

Have to say that even without offically released stuff there is a great selection out there already across all the eras from pro-shot to exceptional fan made content. Montreaux series are fantastic, Musicology, Controversy, D&P etc.

This is a good point. After his death, the YOuTube flood gates opened up a lot and gave us a ton of great stuff. A lot of it is cell phone shot garbage but a great deal of it isn't so that was a bright side to the tragedy of his overdose. I've been down that rabbit hole several times just watching shows.

We really need some pro shot aftershow material with good sound though. We've all seen and heard him do Let's Go Crazy, Kiss, U Got the Look and Purple Rain a million times but I watched him do "Maybe Your Baby", "Fight the Power" and a lot of deep(er) cuts that were totally whipped up on the fly and improvised on the couple of occasions I got to see him at 1am and it was total FIRE so...

I'll take more of that, please.

I think it's the one element of his game that hasn't really been properly documented. There was really something special about them; intimate, unrehearsed JAM SESSIONS with surprise guests and pretty much no choreography and stuff that his regular shows didn't offer. Hell, a 2.5 hour documentary about Prince: The Legend of the Aftershows would be fucking great so I say start there.

I bet there's a ton of footage.

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Speaking of that: what happened to that Netflix documentary? Haven't heard much noise about it.

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herb4 said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

Have to say that even without offically released stuff there is a great selection out there already across all the eras from pro-shot to exceptional fan made content. Montreaux series are fantastic, Musicology, Controversy, D&P etc.

This is a good point. After his death, the YOuTube flood gates opened up a lot and gave us a ton of great stuff. A lot of it is cell phone shot garbage but a great deal of it isn't so that was a bright side to the tragedy of his overdose. I've been down that rabbit hole several times just watching shows.

We really need some pro shot aftershow material with good sound though. We've all seen and heard him do Let's Go Crazy, Kiss, U Got the Look and Purple Rain a million times but I watched him do "Maybe Your Baby", "Fight the Power" and a lot of deep(er) cuts that were totally whipped up on the fly and improvised on the couple of occasions I got to see him at 1am and it was total FIRE so...

I'll take more of that, please.

I think it's the one element of his game that hasn't really been properly documented. There was really something special about them; intimate, unrehearsed JAM SESSIONS with surprise guests and pretty much no choreography and stuff that his regular shows didn't offer. Hell, a 2.5 hour documentary about Prince: The Legend of the Aftershows would be fucking great so I say start there.

I bet there's a ton of footage.

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Speaking of that: what happened to that Netflix documentary? Haven't heard much noise about it.

[Edited 8/26/21 14:50pm]

PRO-SHOT after shows - HELL YEAH! Now THAT's what I would pay big n happy for.

There's a cleaned up version of The Ritz gig [NYC] from '81 out there, wide screen, improved sound, 3 out of 5 picture quality...start with that!

There's a cleaned up version of The Ritz gig [NYC] from '81 out there, wide screen, improved sound, 3 out of 5 picture quality...start with that!

TrivialPursuit said:

Nothing keeps Prince fans happy. They're mostly a miserable sack of people.

vainandy said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

There's a cleaned up version of The Ritz gig [NYC] from '81 out there, wide screen, improved sound, 3 out of 5 picture quality...start with that!

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Wide screen video?

Or wide screen film?